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Reading Time: 5 mins and under Want to support my work? You can now join me on Substack 🙂 Under the April full moon - no one knows what to do with themselves, exactly - only, perhaps, the marsh marigolds flowering - under the sunshine, but through a shower of hail - such resilience! The … Continue reading Imayo, #1
Reading Time: 5 mins and under Want to support my work? You can now join me on Substack 🙂 Safe from the east wind, this spring day feels like summer; the light is clear and bright. I imagine past years: dandelions push through the paving stones, only to wilt under an ongoing haze. Now, how … Continue reading ChĹŤka with Envoy, #1
E.A. Colquitt composes her first renga/renku fragment – with her choice from the provided list of kigo words and phrases – for Tanka Tuesday’s 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, #29. Marking the season of Seimei: Clear and Bright, the poet uses a collaborative form to engage with her favourite of Shakespeare's sonnets, 'Sonnet 29'.
E.A. Colquitt composes her first tanka prose – with her choice from the provided list of kigo words and phrases – for Tanka Tuesday’s 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, #28. As the year moves into 'Clear and Bright', known in Japanese as Seimei, the poet travels through time, contrasting the past and the present, using tanka prose.
E.A. Colquitt composes a senryū trio – with her choice from the provided list of kigo words and phrases – for Tanka Tuesday’s 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, #27. As the year encounters the Spring Equinox, known in Japanese as Shunbun, the poet explores the downsides of the season using the senryū form.
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